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Richard Weissbourd

Senior LecturerHarvard Graduate School of Education

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Richard Weissbourd is a Senior Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he directs the Human Development and Psychology Program. With Stephanie Jones, he directs the Making Caring Common Project, a national effort to make moral and social development priorities in child-raising.

He is a founder of local and national interventions for at-risk children as well as of a Boston pilot school. He has advised on the city, state and federal levels on family policy and school reform and has written for numerous scholarly and popular publications and blogs.

He is the author of The Vulnerable Child (Addison-Wesley, 1996), named by the American School Board Journal as one of the top 10 education books of all time. His most recent book, The Parents We Mean to Be (Houghton Mifflin 2009), was named by The New Yorker as one of the top 24 books of 2009.